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The stainless-steel landmark is part of The Music Center campus, one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. Weekend excursions revisit L.A.’s storied past at landmarks such as the Bradbury Building and Angels Flight railway, both featured on the TV show Bosch, among others. If sports are more your speed, Dodger Stadium in the hilly Echo Park neighborhood overlooks downtown, and nearby hiking trails and bike paths offer an outdoor escape in adjacent Elysian Park.

Grab a bite at Grand Central Market

Attend a concert by the acclaimed LA Phil and experience classical music as it was meant to be heard. We’ve all dreamed of being Julia Roberts shopping on Rodeo Drive, but very few of us could actually afford to shop in the designer boutiques and flagship stores seen in the film Pretty Woman. Along the $200-million ersatz European cobbled walkway Two Rodeo, browsing tourists mingle with serious spenders. Oh and if you’re still after the Pretty Woman experience, duck into the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel where Roberts stays in the film, which boasts a luxe spa and a steakhouse by Wolfgang Puck. Stop and smell the flowers at the rest of the city’s best botanical gardens.

Art and literature

The collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, are housed in a cluster of buildings, with a modern and contemporary-art-filled west campus that opened 2008 and a single-building redesign due to open in 2026 on the eastern half. The focal point is its grand entrance, which includes Chris Burden’s photogenic installation Urban Light. LACMA shares a park with the La Brea Tar Pits and sits just across the street from the Petersen Automotive Museum and Craft Contemporary, and next to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (an excellent celebration of cinema from the folks who hand out the Oscars). From the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center to a trio of T. Along a three-block stretch known as Museum Row on Wilshire Boulevard, visitors can walk to four of these cultural institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. After snapping an obligatory photo standing among the Urban Light exhibit’s 202 antique street lamps, take a step back in time by checking out Ice Age fossils and still-bubbling excavation sites at La Brea Tar Pits & Museum.

Edge cities in Los Angeles County

Venice Beach has long made its case as the bohemian epicenter of California, and while the area gets plenty of mainstream tourists, it still boldly embraces its eccentric spirit—for better or worse. Abbot Kinney has transformed into a high-end ’hood over recent years, but the gritty boardwalk is still a, let’s say, unique place for people watching, with street “performers,” skateboarders and body builders all making their presence known (if you’re simply after a picturesque stretch of beach, we suggest venturing to Santa Monica or Malibu instead). Grab lunch at the Fig Tree before browsing the shelves at Small World Books. With so many world-famous sites and attractions to visit, deciding on the best things to do in Los Angeles can be a bewildering task. If it’s your first visit, you may be inclined to beeline it to Hollywood—but, in addition to probably walking away a bit disappointed, you’d be missing out on all of L.A.’s essential museums. Or you might have your heart set on getting star-struck in Beverly Hills—but, in addition to probably walking away a bit more broke, you’d be overlooking all of the remarkable restaurants farther to the east.
At Row DTLA, where you can find everything from vegan mushroom sandwiches at Champignon Eats to garlic noodz and truffle fries at Lobsterdamus. Critics refer to it either as a laid-back “la-la land” or, conversely, as a place reeling from earthquakes, fire, smog, gang warfare, and riots. The city’s defenders admire its mild climate and geographic variety. They claim that its major social problems are similar to those of all big cities and are perhaps even less severe there than elsewhere. In fact, some observers regard it as the most modern and quintessential American city.

Relax on postcard-perfect beaches in Malibu

Los Angeles County, the most populous of the region, is a Democratic stronghold, although it voted twice for both Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972) and Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984).
Originally an important center for citrus production, the region became an important industrial area by the early 20th century.444546 The Inland Empire also became a key transportation center following the completion of Route 66, and later Interstate 10.
Los Angeles has had a rich and influential Protestant tradition.
Area city, 466 square miles (1,207 square km); county, 4,070 square miles (10,540 square km).
LAX is the only airport to serve as a hub for all three U.S. legacy airlines —American, Delta and United.
Los Angeles is filled with world-famous landmarks and attractions but for an off-the-beaten path treat, visit legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s creation, designed for client Aline Barnsdall in his self-described “California Romanza” style.
Browse a collection of boutiques packed with home goods, under-the-radar apparel brands, and vintage treasures.

Irvine is an exception, as it is a center of employment and is ethnically diverse. A growing alternative dividing marker between north and south is the El Toro Y interchange. Orange Coast or South Coast area is defined instead as consisting of some or all of the cities lining the coast. Many cities adjacent to Los Angeles also have their own daily newspapers whose coverage and availability overlap with certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. Examples include The Daily Breeze (serving the South Bay), and The Long Beach Press-Telegram. The primary airport serving the LA metro area is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), one of the busiest airports in the United States.

The area had been explored earlier by two Franciscan priests named Junipero Serra and Juan Crespi.
Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, it connected cities in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Riverside County.
For some of L.A.’s best improv and sketch comedy, The Groundlings Theatre on Melrose Avenue delivers laughter and a chance to scope out emerging talent.
Los Angeles is a very large city, and the edges of the city are very far from the center, going from the beaches to the mountains.
The name is an abbreviation from the original name of the place.
The original name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula” (in English, “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula”), giving it both one of the longest and shortest (referring to its shortening of “LA”) place names in the world.15 Los Angeles was founded in 1781 while the area was within the borders of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
The Japanese comprise 0.9% of the city’s population and have an established Little Tokyo in the city’s downtown, and another significant community of Japanese Americans is in the Sawtelle district of West Los Angeles.

The Inland Empire, consisting of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, contains fast-growing suburbs of the region, with a large to majority percentage of the working population commuting to either Los Angeles or Orange Counties for work. Originally an important center for citrus production, the region became an important industrial area by the early 20th century.444546 The Inland Empire also became a key transportation center following the completion of Route 66, and later Interstate 10. Despite being primarily suburban, the Inland Empire is also home to important warehousing, shipping, logistics and retail industries, centered on the subregion’s major cities of Riverside, San Bernardino and Ontario. The Greater Los Angeles CSA is the third-largest economic center in the world, after Greater Tokyo and the New York-Newark-Bridgeport CSA. Orange County is sometimes figuratively divided into “North County” and “South County”, with North Orange County including cities such as Anaheim, Fullerton, and Santa Ana, and is the older, more ethnically diverse and more densely built-up area both geographically and culturally closer to Los Angeles. South County, defined variously as beginning with either Costa Mesa42 or Irvine43 and includes cities to the east and south such as Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, and San Clemente, is more residential, affluent, recently developed, and has a mostly white population.

Things to Do in Los Angeles

Anchored by the Japanese American National Museum, the Little Tokyo neighborhood is the largest of the three official Japantowns in the U.S. (the other two are in San Francsico and San Jose). For those arriving by train, Olvera Street is just steps from Union Station’s front doors. The marketplace is an essential part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument—the birthplace of Los Angeles and home to the city’s oldest building, the Avila Adobe.

Get to Know Los Angeles’ Chinatown

Los Angeles has a diverse economy with a broad range of industries. Despite a steep exodus of film and television production since the COVID-19 pandemic,21 Los Angeles is still one of the largest hubs of American film production,2223 the world’s largest by revenue; the city is an important site in the history of film. Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984, and will also host in 2028.
Los Angeles (L.A.), officially the City of Los Angeles, is the largest city in California, in the United States. There are many ethnicities of people living in the city, and over 18 million people in the L.A. Los Angeles is the city with the second biggest population in the United States after New York, overtaking Chicago in the 1970s. There are two providers of heavy rail transportation in the region, Amtrak and Metrolink. Amtrak provides service to San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and points in between on the Pacific Surfliner.
Nearby, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a must for learning about the artists who bring stories to life on the big screen. Sprawling across 32 acres downtown, the aforementioned Row DTLA is a century-old industrial warehouse complex turned creative mecca. Browse a collection of boutiques packed with home goods, under-the-radar apparel brands, and vintage treasures. For big-name designers, The Grove’s open-air shopping plaza offers clothing and beauty wares from Aritzia, Sandro, Charlotte Tilbury, Lululemon, and more. Take a free trolley ride on the 1950s-era streetcar to The Original Farmers Market, where there are more than 100 gourmet grocers, souvenir stands, bookstores, aphrodite casino jewelry shops, and other businesses open seven days a week.